Mike Sample
Co-Founder at Undisclosed
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Sample is a seasoned systems and software architect, co-founder and engineering leader with a multi-decade track record of building and securing large-scale distributed systems using Linux, Kubernetes, Go, eBPF and event-driven platforms. He has led technical strategy and execution from founding startups (NSG, Cmd) through acquisition by Elastic, to principal roles at Hootsuite and Loblaw Digital, delivering high-throughput, production-grade features and migrations. Known for pragmatic simplicity—“as simple as possible but not simpler”—he combines deep kernel- and network-level expertise with product-minded system design, including live migrations and sharded capture pipelines for sensitive workload telemetry. Mike mentors engineering teams, champions secure-by-design architectures and has hands-on experience running agents across VMs and Kubernetes DaemonSets. Based in North Vancouver, he is also an active volunteer in mountain search and rescue, bringing operational discipline and calm under pressure to incident response and on-call system operations.
4 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (17)
observability10
common-schema10
kibana10
elastic-common-schema10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
security9
integrations8
security-hardening8
documentation7
logging5
monitoring4
ebpf4
agent4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
m-sample/writing
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
elastic/ebpf
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Elastic's eBPF
Contributions:10 reviews, 11 comments in 2 months
elasticsecurityebpf
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